You can now search for new and old caribbean news stories aggregated from Caribbean news sources.

Caribbean Newspaper Search

Loading

Thursday, June 24

Disguises May Have Helped Jamaican Drug Lord Elude Arrest

NYTimes.com: "MEXICO CITY — It took more than a month for the Jamaican authorities to find Christopher Coke, the island’s most wanted man, and what sat atop his head at the time of his capture — a bushy black wig — provided at least one clue as to why.

Jamaican police officers and soldiers had gone house-to-house last month in a deadly siege of Mr. Coke’s stronghold, the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston, the capital, but they came up empty in their hunt for the elusive Mr. Coke."